Attorney and President of the Center for Constitutional Rights, Michael Ratner, has led the Center in its aggressive legal fight against the post – 9/11 violations of civil liberties by the Bush administration. He was part of a small group of lawyers that first took on representation of the Guantanamo detainees in January 2001, a case that went to the supreme court where a major victory was won in June 2004. Attack on lawyers; Military Commissions Act; designation of unlawful enemy combatant; torture; writ of habeas corpus; preventive detention; round-ups.